Radical 80
Radical 80 or radical do not (毋部) meaning "mother" or "do not" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes. Chinese characters with a similar component 母 "mother" may also be classified under this radical.
| 毋 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 
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| 毋 (U+6BCB) "mother, do not" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | wú | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄨˊ | |
| Wade–Giles: | wu2 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | mòuh | |
| Jyutping: | mou4 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | bû | |
| Japanese Kana: | ブ bu / ム mu (on'yomi) なかれ nakare (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 무 mu | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | なかれ nakare ははのかん hahanokan | |
| Hangul: | 말 mal | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 16 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
毋 is also the 99th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
In the Hokkien language, 毋 is often used to represent the negation particle [m̩], spelled m̄ in Peh-oe-ji and Tai-lo.
Evolution
    
 Bronze script character Bronze script character
 Large seal script character Large seal script character
 Small seal script character Small seal script character
Sinogram
    
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a second grade kanji[1]
References
    
- "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
Literature
    
- Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
- Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.



